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Ross Stores spiked 8% after delivering a quintessential beat-and-raise quarter, as it blew past Wall Street's expectations. Earnings got a boost from tariff refunds.
By Laura Matthews NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Nvidia's earnings report and the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole symposium will test the assumptions behind this year's stock market rally, offering clues
Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) shares rallied in pre-market trading after the off-price retailer delivered stronger-than-expected second-quarter sales and earnings and raised its full-year profit outlook, supported by higher customer traffic and a tariff refund. Sales for the quarter increased 13% year on year to $6.
Walmart posted a strong Q2 earnings beat and raised its outlook, but slowing U.S. sales, weaker transactions, and temporary tariff benefits pressured shares and divided investors.
Michael Reinking, Senior Market Strategist at the NYSE, recaps a week dominated by Treasury Secretary Bessent, whose doubled liquidity support buybacks reignited the debasement trade, sending gold back above 4,500 and triggering a massive crypto short squeeze that propelled Bitcoin up ~15% and Ethereum up 25%. Escalating Iran tensions pushed ICE Brent into the low 90s after a 60-day ceasefire expired, while equity markets drifted lower with the S&P 500 down ~1.5% as retail earnings disappointed broadly and healthcare surged nearly 4% on landmark cancer trial results from Merck and Moderna. Looking ahead, next week's PCE print, Nvidia earnings, and Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech are the marquee events to watch.
A fifth consecutive oil-price increase is strengthening Exxon's cash-flow outlook while reviving inflation risk.
Gold (GC=F) December futures opened at $4,580 per troy ounce on Thursday, August 20, 2026, up 0.8% from Wednesday's closing price.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) surged past $70,000 after Trump met with cryptocurrency leaders at the White House and called on Congress to pass the CLARITY Act. Yahoo Finance Fed Correspondent Jennifer Schonberger reports on who was among the two dozen attendees at the meeting and whether there is real progress on the stalled digital asset legislation.
Walmart earnings are due early Thursday after a summer promotional pricing blitz to lure inflation-weary consumers. On Wednesday, WMT stock edged higher, near a key level. The big Dow Jones stock is the nation's and world's largest retailer by 2025 sales, according to the National Retail Federation.
Wedbush sees another sign of memory inflation.
TGT tops Q2 estimates as traffic, digital and category sales strengthen, while tariff refunds lift profitability, and management raises its fiscal 2026 outlook.
Comparable sales rose 3.8% on traffic growth, with EPS guidance lifted $0.75 excluding tariff refunds
Comparable sales grew 3.8% in the second quarter, topping Wall Street estimates, though a tariff refund inflated the earnings figure
<p>Small-caps lagged their large-cap peers for over a decade in an environment dominated by the Fed put, failing to manifest any long lasting outperformance. With so much now changed, can small-cap performance this year manage to establish a longer-term trend or will it too prove to just be a temporary rotation? Find out what the industry experts think in this episode of<em> ETF Zoo</em>. </p>
Global bond yields (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) continue to spike, raising more concerns for US investors ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. Roundhill Investments CEO Dave Mazza comes on Market Catalysts to discuss how investors may be getting "a little bit spooked" by this surge.
Rising oil prices and sticky inflation are fueling demand for income, putting high-yield dividend ETFs offering more than 5% in the spotlight.
CFO Richard McPhail told CNBC that the company continues to operate in “frozen housing market conditions,” with consumers still holding back on larger projects.
Investing.com -- Citi upgraded Bath & Body Works to Buy from Neutral ahead of the retailer’s second-quarter results next week, citing expectations for an earnings beat, a depressed stock price and potential upside from energy prices and tariff refunds. This combination of factors "creates a very attractive risk/reward" heading into the print, the bank’s analysts said.
The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval
The Fed, oil prices, and corporate earnings are the catalysts putting this Vanguard fund in a prime position to outperform.
“Rising fertilizer prices could lift global food inflation temporarily to 4-5%.”
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Monday, with technology stocks pointing to a firmer open, as investors scaled back bets on an impending Federal Reserve rate hike and looked ahead to a fresh batch of retail-sector earnings this week.
US stock futures are treading water this morning, with traders caught between the Federal Reserve's next move and a fresh batch of retail earnings. Dow futures dipped 0.2%, the S&P 500 nudged up 0.1% after a third straight weekly gain, and the Nasdaq-100 added 0.5%. It's a quieter week...
U.S. stocks could be heading toward a tricky patch over the next two months, with midterm elections in focus, longer-dated Treasury bond yields trading at multiyear highs, and volatility readings suppressed. The equal weighted index of the is now up more than 17% for the year, volatility gauges are trading at the lowest levels since early January, and data suggest fading bets on an autumn Federal Reserve rate hike.
Some companies have handed investors a bigger paycheck every single year for more than six decades, surviving every recession and rate shock along the way. Five of them look particularly compelling right now, and one trades at a price not seen in over a year.
Gold surged after a bruising jobs report, but GLDM still sits well below its 2026 record, and that gap creates a very different conversation than buying bullion at a peak.
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